Rev scarth (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with fraying to the spine ends. Folding map has two, short, closed, tears. Pages a touch age-toned with scattered spotting, more so to the start and end with the tissue-guard to the frontispiece age-toned; Hardback. Bevelled, Blind-Stamped Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 11¾" x 9" (1.8 kg); pp (xiii) 137; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Fold-out floor plan; List of subscribers; Black & white plates; Fold-out colour maps (1); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191868 ||. C. S. Beckett (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A scarce edition of this fascinating study of the history of Roman Britain. A scarce early edition of this fascinating historical work regarding Roman Britain by Harry Mengden Scarth.A thorough study pf the history of Britain before the Roman Invasion and the various events during the reigns of Caesar and Nero, Emperor Severus, Constantine the Great and others.Looking at the construction of Roman roads, the growth of the cities during the Roman occupation, and the spread of Christianity. A very interesting historical volume. Illustrated with a coloured folding map to the frontispiece. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities; a minor cockling to the cloth of the rear board. The cloth to the spine has slightly darkened. With a small bookseller sticker to the front pastedown, and an ex libris stamp to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with only a minor odd spot to the very occasional leaf. Illustrated with a colour folding map as frontispiece. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated by a Series of Sketches from Nature by Caroline M. K. Stothert. Edited by The Rev. H. M. Scarth M.A. Preb of Wells and Rector of Wrington, Somerset, Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, of the British Archaeological Association, &c. &c. &c. 20 sepia photolithographed plates by Maclure & MacDonald. First Edition. Folio. [380 x 268 x 12 mm]. 10 pp. Publisher's original light brown cloth front cover blocked in black and lettered in gilt, rear cover blocked in blind, yellow endleaves, plain endleaves. (Joints, headcaps and corners a little worn, rear hinge reinforced). A series of familiar and less well-known views of Bath and its surroundings by a resident of Bathwick Hill, Caroline Stothert. She was introduced to the diarist Francis Kilvert in 1871, and we are told that she was then 35 and the grand-daughter of George Stothert, the manager of the famous Bath engineering firm Stothert and Pitt. Maclure & MacDonald (illustrator).…

1864, London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 4to, ppxiii + 137 + (iii), black and white illustrations by C. S. Beckett, claret cloth. Covers damp stained, otherwise very good.